DOD Launching Expanded Hack the Pentagon Bug Bounty Program

The Hack the Pentagon bug bounty program—which Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced last March at the RSA security conference—lasted several weeks, but it was so successful that the Department of Defense is now following up with an expanded initiative.

The new, expanded DOD bug bounty effort will be operated by HackerOne and Synack. In a bug bounty program, security researchers are rewarded for responsibly disclosing security bugs.